Marton Szabo
Nice to meet you!
Camden, NJ, Fireworks Gallery, 2018
In this exhibition I introduced my artistic vision to America. The selection was really international: my painting about people, friends, family in Naples (Italy), Manchester (UK), Budapest (Hungary) New York, and Philadelphia of course.
Marton Szabo painter, Szabó Márton festő, Szabó Márton festőművész
Marton Szabo painter, Szabó Márton festő, Szabó Márton festőművész
Children of the city
Budapest, Hungary, Atelier Pro Art Gallery 2016
In this exhibition he showed my latest paintings – people from Italy, USA, UK and Hungary. Friends, family and strangers.
Days of Penitence
Budapest, Hungary, KAS Gallery 2014
In this year I lost my father. He left our family when I was kid and left the country too. But he and I had a strong history. Once I visited him in West Germany, he took me to Paris, to the Louvre. After he died I started to paint this memory and religious paintings. I had a catholic education (not typical in a communist country). After the loss of my father I felt calmness to paint the crying Madonna, Madonna of Damask, or the crying baby Jesus.
Inglorious Secret
Budapest, Hungary, POF Gallery 2012
Sex is often a taboo. Porn is always a taboo. These paintings were inspired by porn magazines. I wanted to capture the shame. This exhibition wanted to shock and show the positive and negative power of Eros.
Poor Child's Lament
Budapest, Hungary, Lehner Gallery 2009
This exhibition was about Marton Szabo’s vision about lost childhood. Self portraits and his son’s portraits were in the focus. As a divorced parents’ child and as a divorced father the pain of loneliness came through from the paintings. To visualize the alienation Marton Szabo started to experiment of painting on canvas stretched onto old televisions.
Dreamtheater
Budapest, Hungary, KAS Gallery 2004
Dried flowers, empty Unicum bottles, scale, dolls – I’ve built a world around myself – my dream theater. Vivid emptiness was on my paintings, my struggling how to grow up, be a husband, a father as an artist. The exhibition was sponsored by Zwack Unicum Co because the I used the company flagship brand’s – Unicum - as artistic object.
North and South
Budapest, Hungary, KAS Gallery 2001
Loneliness. I just divorced, moved back to my mother. I closed myself into my childhood's apartement. And I painted what I saw - the yard, the street, the furniture, my mother's plants. Anything but not my life. I was grieving.
Mickey's Homecoming
Budapest, Hungary, 9Art Gallery 2007
Before the 2008 crisis I had bad feelings. Insecurity, chaotic perceptions. And I started a new series, myself as the Big Hungarian Mickey Mouse. The brave, the cruel, the funny persona.